226 Proverbs about Sand / Page 7
121. One bee is better than a thousand flies.
122. Sow corn in clay, and plant vines in sand.
123. The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.
124. Where the sea goes let the sands go.
125. One should eat sand rather than fall to villainy.
126. For one pleasure a thousand pains.
127. In hawks, hounds, arms, and love, for one pleasure a thousand pains.
128. Words are but sands; 'tis money buys lands.
129. Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.
130. If the Sultan demands five eggs, let his soldiers roast a thousand chickens.
131. The eyes can do a thousand things that the fingers can't.
132. In a tree that you can't climb, there are always a thousand fruits.
133. The sandal tree perfumes the axe that fells it.
134. It is easier to cover our feet with sandals than to cover the earth with carpets.
135. Every sandpiper praises its own swamp.
136. A thousand friends are few; one enemy is too many.
137. Any sandpiper is great in his own swamp.
138. Every sandpiper praises his own swamp.
139. A single bad experience is worth a thousand threats.
140. He who has no children has one sorrow, he who has children has a thousand sorrows.
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